Grad School Business

OK, the past week and a half has been crazy. A summary is as follows:

• Been told I couldn’t fly to the US at the gate
• Changed nothing, and entered the US
• Opened a Bank Account (easy as pie - proof of address & ID, away you go)
• Put a deposit on an apartment on the first day of looking -great studio, loft-style, in Chelsea
• Had said apartment fall through due to real estate company problems (nothing to do with me)
• Seen at least 15 apartments that fall into various negative catagories
  • Basements - dark basements
  • Come with the ability to touch all walls from one standing point
  • have a cabinet you have to climb over the get to the bathroom
  • Have the shower in the kitchen such that you could cook and wash at the same time (twice) - NYC multitasking
  • Built walls in studios to make them “one bedroom”
  • Been the shape of a piece of cheese that would allow only custom furniture
  • Been really nice but stretching the budget too far

• Found another apartment that we have (hopefully) rented
• Actually opened the accountancy CD and found out it isn’t that horrendous
• Spent way too much time eye-ing up the computerI am getting, and fully legitimised its purchase to myself
• Having beers with friends (some good times, thank god)

So, as you can probably imagine it has been chaos. Once the lease is signed, I am out of NYC for a little while to study Stats, Accountancy, look at that Math CD and generally try and prepare for preterm. I’ll try to catch up more tomorrow, but I have been running around about 10 miles a day in 90 degree heat to sort this all out, and have said “never again” more times than I would care to mention. But it is nearly, nearly all done now.